Now here he smells, now there he smells, Winding his voice along the dells, Till grey flows up the morn, O Then hies again To Lady Jane No longer now forlorn, O. Ay, as it were a bud, did break To loveliness for her love's sake, So she in beauty moving Rides at his hand Across his land, Beloved as well as loving.

By night also the blacks, with the whites occasionally joining in, sought the canny 'possum and the embattled 'coon; in spare times by day they hied their curs after the fleeing Brer Rabbit, or built and baited seductive traps for turkeys and quail; and fishing was available both by day and by night.

"Dost perceive, Frederic," said the facetious Hilary, "yon modestly arrayed pair of palpable gents hieing hitherward yet pretending not to descry us?

The Bombay shop-keeper commences by asking an exorbitant price for his commodities; our Memon retorts by offering the least they could possibly fetch; and the battle between the maximum and the minimum eventually settles itself somewhere about the golden mean, whereupon the Memon hies him homewards as full of satisfaction as Thackeray's Jew.